Israel Is A "Pedophile's Paradise"

The National Council for the Child called on government ministries to take steps to prevent pedophiles from trapping children on the Web. 

Advocacy group: Israel is a pedophile's paradise
Dana Weiler-Polak • Ha'aretz

The National Council for the Child welcomed the arrest of Avinoam Braverman and called on government ministries to take steps to prevent pedophiles from trapping children on the Web. 

"We have been saying for a long time that Israel is a pedophile's paradise and everyone said we were exaggerating," council head Yitzhak Kadman said. 

"But we see how this thing happens again and again, and that the safety net for children has more holes than net," he said. 

The National Council for the Child wants the government to institute mandatory classes, beginning in elementary school, on how to use the Web safely. 

The council wants the Public Security Ministry to institute a "Web guard" of volunteers under the Civil Guard to assist the police in this area, and for the Justice Ministry to impose harsher penalties on online sex offenders. 

The Israel Association for Child Protection said the issue comes up frequently in its meetings with parents and children. 

The association puts on plays in elementary schools and kindergartens to warn children about online correspondences with strangers, and to teach them to protect their bodies, Dorit Hoffman, deputy director of the association, says. 

Hoffman says that before each play they hold an instruction session for the faculty and for parents of kindergarten children on how to respond to children's questions and remarks about the play. 

After the police receive a complaint or a report involving a child, child investigators are called in. 

Ronit Tzur, the national supervisor of child investigations and special investigations in the youth probations services in the Social Affairs Ministry, says: "We try to get to the children as quickly as possible before others interview them." 

Creating a relationship and encouraging the children to tell investigators what happened to them is a slow process, Tzur says. 

To get at the truth, investigators ask open questions rather than leading questions, and encourage parents to do the same with their children, Tzur says. 

Child investigators will sometimes take the child back to the scene of the incident or have the child draw pictures. 

They are authorized to determine the credibility of a child's testimony and testify instead of the child if they believe that the child would be hurt by appearing in court.

Comments

[harold]

We have been saying for a long time that Israel is a pedophile's paradise and everyone said we were exaggerating

If that is the case then why in over 20 years could they not come up with one victim of Mondrowitz? I find it hard to believe that he reformed. From what I read most pedophile, especially those without any rehabilitation, continue to abuse children.

[seymour]

harold

maybe that is the point they do not look hard enough. (but I really do not know)

[Shmarya]

Lets see. Cops found child porn in his home. Child porn is illegal. But Mondrowitz wasn't charged.

They also found that he ran a fake university degree scam – a big crime in Israel. But Mondrowitz wasn't charged.

Do the math. 'harold.'

[maven]

So, Shmarya, Israel is then a "false academic paradise"? One can understand the use of hyperbole by an NGO chairman, but don't you think this headline is a bit out of order? Do people sell their children to foreign sex travelers in Israel, as in many larger countries? And if that's "paradise", how come many of the big criminals are Americans, who committed much or most of their activities in the US? What does that make the US (where there does seem to be a lot more of this happening, particularly when linked to rape/murder of the unfortunate children)?

[Shmarya]

Israel largely ignores pedophilia. The reason so few israelis are convicted is that police don't do their job.

[maven]

Do you have data supporting that statement? After all, as part of the health care system in Israel I would say that its a lot better than say NYC. Child health care there is FAR superior to the US on many fronts (not the least of which being universal health care and the ability, for example, to require vitamin supplementation in snack foods).

I would like you to support that statement with actual facts or retract it.

[Shmarya]

Please.

You want statistics? WTF is wrong with you? Do you think someone is out there collecting stats on pedophiles not charged?

Any law enforcement professional who has dealt with Israeli cops on this issue will agree with Kadman's statement.

You can look at the recent Mondrowitz case, where, not only was he not extradited, he also wasn't charged for child porn found in his possession.

As you so often do, you reacted long before you actually thought.

[maven]

That's absurd, leaving your remarkable insinuation aside about my thought processes.

WTF is wrong with me? You make a claim that Israel is a "pedophiles paradise" which is against all evidence, and cover it with meaningless statements like "any law enforcement professional". I can get you ten people to sign that your statement is false and that they cooperate with interpol, etc.

Furthermore, the fact remains that all of Mondrowitz's activity was in the US. Most of the cases you've reported on took place in the US. Where are all your pedophile cases in Israel?

Stating "they aren't reported" is like someone saying "Jewish bloggers are all pedophiles but its not reported".

[harold]

So you are saying that when Mondrowitz's victims file a complaint to cops in Israel the police dismiss the charge? I find this hard to believe.

[Shmarya]

WTF is wrong with me? You make a claim that Israel is a "pedophiles paradise" which is against all evidence, and cover it with meaningless statements like "any law enforcement professional". I can get you ten people to sign that your statement is false and that they cooperate with interpol, etc.

Get your ten.

Past that, you're simply wrong.

Israel is a haven for pedophiles. So is Brooklyn. Think about that.

And also, and I realize this may be novel, notice that I have pedophile's paradise in quotation marks, because – gasp! – it's a quote.

[maven]

You only have one quotation mark there. Anyway, I don't know why you are getting so nasty, can't anyone ask a question? I didn't get personal with you, did I?

[Chayim]

Israel is just like every other western secular country so dont expect them to be normal. Unless they will become a theocracy under leading rabbis there will always be crime on the loose.

[Yakira]

Why does anybody need to take a class on "protection from the internet"?? The parents are the ones who need to closely monitor what sites their children visit and who they talk to. People need to be responsible for their own family members, especially children. If most parents would do their job right, then child molestation via internet would be a non-issue. Too many people are looking for someone else to raise their children- TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN!! There should be nothing/no one that your child knows about and you don't!

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